Diggs, Barbara
Summary: "Biases become harmful when they lead us to treat people unfairly. When unfair treatment of a particular group is widespread in a community or society, it gives rise to discrimination and inequality. But due to the country's long embrace of racially discriminatory laws, policies, and social codes, racial bias stands out as a particularly entrenched and destructive problem"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: ReferencePoint Press, Inc. 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 305.8 DIGDelmont, Matthew F.
Summary: "The definitive history of World War II from the African American perspective, written by civil rights expert and Dartmouth history professor Matthew Delmont. Over one million Black men and women served in World War II. Black troops were at Normandy, Iwo Jima, and the Battle of the Bulge, serving in segregated units and performing unheralded but vital support jobs, only to be denied housing and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 DELSummary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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Summary: "Racial trauma can reverberate for generations, and lead to anxiety, irritability, anger, rage, depression, low self-esteem, shame, and guilt. Teens are especially vulnerable to racial trauma, as they are still developing a sense of self and identity. The Racial Trauma Handbook for Teens provides readers with evidence-based cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) skills to heal the wounds of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Instant Help Books 2023
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 305.8 HILSaad, Layla F.
Summary: "From the author of the New York Times bestselling book ME AND WHITE SUPREMACY comes the young readers' edition that teaches readers how to explore and understand racism and white supremacy and how young readers can do their part to help change the world"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Explore 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 305.8 SAAAlexander, Elizabeth
Summary: "In the midst of civil unrest in the summer of 2020 following the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery, one of the great literary voices of our time, Elizabeth Alexander, wrote a moving reflection on the psyche of young Black America, turning a mother's eye to her sons' generation. Originally published in the New Yorker, the essay brilliantly and lovingly observed the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.896 ALECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 305.896 ALEXu, Kenny
Summary: "Even in the midst of a nationwide surge of bias and incidents against them, Asians from coast to coast have quietly assumed mastery of the nation's technical and intellectual machinery and become essential American workers. Yet, they've been forced to do so in the face of policy proposals-written in the name of diversity-excluding them from the upper ranks of the elite. Going beyond the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Diversion Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 378.1 XUSummary: After the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., an elementary school teacher in a small Iowa town decided to introduce ideas about racism and discrimination to her all-white class. This classic Frontline episode recounts Jane Elliott's bold experiment and its provocative approach-awarding special privileges to her blue-eyed students while discriminating against those whose eyes were brown....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1985
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Summary: This program explores youth culture and the values of the next generation by putting the camera into the hands of three young producers. Through their short documentaries, these producers explore the way race is imagined and understood by the next generation. It is an eye-opening look at a diverse generation influenced by an influx of cultural cross-pollination, as well as the information...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2003
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Summary: This program explores racial issues in Siler City, North Carolina, including: what are the effects of rapid change in racial demographics? What happens when white culture no longer dominates society? Will the future more closely resemble our segregated past, or is the nation experiencing the declining significance of race? Utilizing the writing of Eric Liu (The Accidental Asian: Notes of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2003
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Summary: They're an average American family at a typical American restaurant. They also happen to be Hispanic (not to mention that the restaurant is situated in Tucson, Arizona, a hub of our nation's ongoing immigration debate) From out of nowhere, an off-duty security guard asks to see their documentation, and as he grows more insistent, the other diners nervously consider what steps, if any, to take....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Livingston, Robert W.
Summary: "An essential tool for individuals, organizations, and communities of all sizes to jump-start dialogue on racism and bias and to transform well-intentioned statements on diversity into concrete actions-from a leading Harvard social psychologist. How can Ibecome part of the solution? In the wake of the social unrest of 2020 and growing calls for racial justice, many business leaders and ordinary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Currency 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 LIVSaad, Layla F
Summary: "When Layla Saad began an Instagram challenge called #meandwhitesupremacy, she never predicted it would become a cultural movement. She encouraged people to own up and share their racist behaviors, big and small. She was looking for truth, and she got it... Thousands of people participated in the challenge, and over 80,000 people downloaded the supporting work Me and White Supremacy. Updated...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.809 SAASummary: Directed by Sindi Gordon, this film explores reverse racism, offering a contemporary view of two populations often overlooked in the race dialogue: Native Americans and native Hawaiians. In South Dakota, three generations of Lakota families consider their past and their future. Meanwhile, in Hawaii, beginning in the 1990s, lawsuits challenged the rights of natives to run schools and housing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2003
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Summary: An exploration of the notion of race, this program follows host Paul Duddridge as he pushes aside society’s taboos to find out what “race” really is. Duddridge organizes a mini-Olympics based on racial identity to demonstrate the fluidity of the concept—he notes that Jews and Arabs will be on the same team—and the participants poke fun at their own tendency to stereotype. With significant input...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This episode looks at the black/white paradigm in America today. Co-directed by Lulie Haddad and Orlando Bagwell, the program weaves the personal memoirs of John Edgar Wideman (Fatheralong: A Meditation on Fathers and Sons, Race, and Society) and Jane Lazarre (Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness: A Memoir of a White Mother of Black Sons) with the stories from the staff at King-Drew County Medical...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2003